Minister Allows Premier Coaches Appeal
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THE Minister of Transport has allowed an appeal by Premier Coaches (Watford) Ltd. against the decision of the Metropolitan deputy Traffic Commissioner refusing to grant a variation of the conditions of a road-service licence for express carriage services between Watford and Hastings and Eastbourne, to authorize a picking-up point at St. Albans.
Agreeing with the assessment of his inspector that the appellants established their claim to a picking-up point at St. Albans, the Minister said it seemed to
him that the convenience of a direct service to 165 passengers in a year was not a negligible quantity and it was clear that St. Albans was already regarded as a picking-up point in its own right for travel to other places. He said it was reasonable in present-day conditions that all concerned should seek to spare passengers inconvenient journeys to join their coaches in cases where a more convenient picking-up point could be provided without harmfully affecting other local operators.